[Verse 1]
Fragments from the decade are splayed out on your floor
Like hundreds of locked doors
There's a story that you're trying to find
But the pieces don't fit together in your mind
[Verse 2]
Your mother was a drunkard
Your father was not a saint
Your sister lacked restraint
And in photos you were always staring through the lens
To some distant place you would rather have been
[Chorus]
Days are lonely and long
Walking in place where you don't belong
Here on paved native lands
Time disappears from the palms of your hands
[Instrumental Break]
[Verse 2]
Fragments from the decade are dancing in the fire
Like marionettes on wires
And if you stare too long they almost
Seem alive
Too beautiful and helpless to survive
[Chorus]
Days are lonely and long
Walking in place where you don't belong
Here on paved native lands
Time disappears from the palms of your hands